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NYS Legislature to consider 18 month moratorium on industrial wind plants until a Task Force reports on problems

Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court speaks, even industry agrees: local flow control legislation is legal

California bans from trash: lights, batteries, electronics, mercury-containing switches, treated wood, paints, solvents, photo waste, automobile fluids

Flow control battle in Pennsylvania

Farmersville landfill proposal on its last gasp? County takes IWS's land for back taxes

New law allows states to stop railroads from siting waste facilities; waste industry supports the action

Hakes Landfill (Steuben Co.) gets permit to permit to expand from 300K to 450K tons/yr.: Casella wins big

New York City to haul Bronx waste by rail: 2,100 tons per day to be shipped out of state

In Europe all businesses must pretreat waste before disposal: 2002 Landfill Directive matures

Allegany wind power plant law: Town Board limits noise to 3 decibel increase town-wide

Town of Carrollton poised to adopt new wind law

Now you can get paid to recycle

A Household Guide to Building Green: Citizens Environmental Coalition publishes an on line guide to alternative power, design and building supplies

What you can do to reduce greenhouse gases

Are landfill gas-to-energy plants producing "green energy"? No.

Higher disposal costs are reinvigorating recycling programs. Now you can get paid to recycle.

Electronics waste accounts for only two percent of America’s MSW waste stream, but up to 70 percent of the toxicity in that waste.

The Consumer Electronics Association estimates that 304 million electronics were removed from American households in 2005, with two-thirds of those items still in working order.

Phase out PVC plastic: focus on Target retail stores

New report: radioactive waste from nuclear weapons facilities is being released to regular landfills

Comments requested: EPA wants to redefine "solid waste" to allow certain hazardous materials in MSW landfills

Incineration or landfilling? Niagara-Hamilton (Ontario) debates the choice

Chemung Co. Landfill plans major expansion

Perseverence pays off: Town of Albion defeats Waste Management in NY high court

CONGRESS MAY ACT: waste-to-rail loophole needs to be plugged

Sen. Young & Cong. Kuhl to discuss promoting ethanol plants: April 14 at 9:15 AM at Delevan-Yorkshire Public Library

TOWN SUPPORTS WOOD-CHIP GAS PLANT BUT NOT INCINERATION: Corinth town board bans trash-burning plants

EPA proposes new definition of solid waste: proposal aims to promote recycling hazardous materials

HELP FOR COMMUNITIES INTERESTED IN SMART GROWTH: EPA assistance is available

NY GOV. SPITZER'S ENVIRONMENTAL APPOINTMENTS: good news

ANGELICA'S HYLAND LANDFILL GETS A 48-ACRE EXPANSION: proposal would fill ravine and stream

ROUTE 219 FREEWAY TO PETERS ROAD: NYSDEC considers whether wetland and stream destruction is justified

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT'S FLOW CONTROL POWERS: will local control be preserved?

CCCC AND MEADOWNBROOK COLONY SUE OLEAN AND ALLEGANY: Giardini gravel mine approvals challenged

WEST VALLEY: demolition debris coming to Olean?

Tickeltown Trust & Trade: Alternative Holiday Gift Fair, 10 AM to 4:30 PM Saturday, 12/2

DEC PROPOSES WASTE-BY-RAIL EXEMPTION: transfer stations on rail lines would need no state permit

ELLICOTTVILLE INCINERATOR PROPOSAL: Planning Board meets August 28 to consider the proposal

EPA WITHDRAWS OBJECTIONS TO ROUTE 219 FREEWAY PROJECT: EPA succumbs to political pressure, leaves record of serious concerns

IOWA RESTRICTS GROWTH OF FACTORY FARMS: environmental agency responds to record high construction of livestock confinements

NEW YORK CITY WASTE: Mayor plans to improve the flow of waste with marine transfer stations

HORIZON and AURORA DAIRY PRODUCTS ARE NOT ORGANIC: Their products are coming from factory farm feedlots.

NORTH CAROLINA BANS LANDFILLS: Both houses of the state legislature adopted for a least one year a ban on new landfills.

CASELLA MOVES AGAINST ELMIRA:

city transfer station would close

MILLENIUM PIPELINE: public comment period opens

CONGRESS WANTS GARBAGE BY RAIL TO BE EXEMPT FROM LOCAL APPROVAL: House debate May 23

WEST VALLEY: EPA urges Dept. of energy to dig up contaminated tanks

ZOAR VALLEY: new protections proposed

WEST VALLEY: Coalition on WV Nuclear Wastes goes to court to stop reclassification of high-level nuclear wastes

SENECA MEADOWS PROPOSES TO ADD A NEW 178-ACRE LANDFILL: public meeting May 16

CASELLA'S HAKES C&D LANDFILL IN CAMPBELL, NY: proposal would increase area 23 acres and height 89 feet

WAL-MART IN ALLEGANY: will community impacts be considered?

ELLICOTTVILLE INCINERATOR PROPOSAL: EPA finalizes new rules for small incinerators

Peak Wet Weather Discharges from Municipal Sewage Treatment Facilities

NEW BALTIMORE, NY, SAYS NO: Dick Penfold's new dump proposal turned away

RODMAN REJECTS CASELLA: North Country town doesn't trust them

CHEMUNG COUNTY GIVES UP ITS LANDFILL TO CASELLA: same old

TOWN OF ALBION BAN ON LANDFILLS UPHELD: Waste Management lawsuit dismissed

OHIO LANDFILL HOST COMMUNITY POISONED BY HYDROGEN SULFIDE: EPA and ATSDR take action

EPA SEEKS COMMUNITY INPUT ON GOWANDA LANDFILL CLEANUP: Public meeting August 10, 2005 at 7:00 p.m at Gowanda Central H.S.

EPA ASKS FOR COMMUNITY INPUT TO ADDRESS CONTAMINATED SOIL AND GROUND WATER IN LITTLE VALLEY: TCE plume to Salamanca

NEW STATE BOTTLE BILL PROPOSED: Assembly passes, now goes to the Senate

FARMERSVILLE TASK FORCE: The County's Task Force met Thurs., April 21, 2005, at the Farmersville Town Hall. Chairman Jerry Burrell disspelled rumors that the County wants to site its own dump in Farmersville, noting the resources have been dedicated to continue to oppose the project in the DEC permit proceeding despite budget pressures. Mr. Burrell also clarified that, while 1997 state grant money to purchase the dump site for a park had to be returned, the County has not abandoned the plan for a park in Farmersville.

SEALAND WASTE PROPOSES NEW LANDFILL IN TOWN OF CARROLL: why we think the effort is futile

CASELLA MOVING IN ON CHEMUNG COUNTY: privatization of public landfill in the works

DEC IS ABOUT TO LET POLLUTERS REPLACE DEC MONITORS: Take action here

BFI PROPOSES LANDFILL #8 FOR NIAGARA FALLS: comment period ends March 7

ALCOA WILL MIX HAZARDOUS WASTE WITH CEMENT: the company says it's "recycling"

DEC ORDERS CLEANUP OF PERSIA TIRE DUMP: David Wilder charged with illegal stockpile

PILGRIMAGE TO THE WATER: images of Farmersville

LEWIS COUNTY LANDFILL falls to Casella